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Croydon-based grime producer B:Thorough joins the Hi––NRG fold on July 24 with a four-track self-titled EP.
The release follows up March’s ‘Calm Levz’ EP – a collaborative project with grime veteran JT The Goon that dropped via B:Thorough’s new label Textured – as well as recent mixes for London label Brunswick Sound and French blog Phonographe Corp. ‘Calm Levz’ received rave reviews from Polymer Zine/Mixmag, DJ Mag and more.
On his latest, B:Thorough is inspired once again by a slew of grime references both classic and new-gen. Across the four tracks he incorporates eski-beat sounds and gliding squarewaves, Devil Mix drama and era-defining Boxed-esque instrumentals, all while fine-tuning his soon-to-be-signature hi-def and melodic style.
The EP is bookended by a pair of tracks both athematic in scale and mutated with sounds away from grime. Opener ‘Turn Back Time’ is a starry-eyed, hands-in-the-air kind of tune that’s destined to get ravers on the floor – whenever that may be – thanks to its syrupy, earwormy nature. Likewise, on euphoric closing cut ‘Trance 2000’ (a “cover/edit/bootleg” of trance duo Three Drives’ 1998 track ‘Greece 2000') B:Thorough looks to the wave scene for inspiration as he toys with soaring compositions and jaw-crunching, mood, mind and soul-lifting material. “I’ve made a whole bunch of trance edits in this sort of wave, grime hybrid style, but this one stood out,” he says.
Middle tracks ‘Falling Down The Stairs’ and ‘Super Freeze’ are grime in its purest, iciest form. They hark back to the genre’s beginnings while providing a snapshot of how grime and its adjacent sounds may look and feel this decade.
Hi-NRG, helmed by furious styles, returned in March 2020 after a two-year hiatus with a five-track release from Diessa.
Tracklist:
1. Turn Back Time
2. Falling Down The Stairs
3. Super Freeze
4. Trance 2000